But wait, there's more! Now how much would you pay? ![Evil >:D](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/evil.gif)
This beast has an ugly sister; she's a bit rustier and has a thin crack in the meter lens in the area above the movement.
Once I get a chance to test the internals, I'll be putting ugly sister up in the B/S/T. I'm just keeping the pics here for now. SOLD to a fellow TEA addict who was quick on the draw. ![Laughing :-DD](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif)
And here's the back on ugly sister; someone has drilled and installed grommets. I BELIEVE this is the one I've actually used.
![](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/amsco-medical-lighting-variac-dont-turn-it-on-tear-it-down!/?action=dlattach;attach=762549;image)
Here she is wired for testing with a 1KW Evaporative Heater as a load.
![Evil >:D](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/evil.gif)
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Here she is holding and humming a little at 6A/633W.
![](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/amsco-medical-lighting-variac-dont-turn-it-on-tear-it-down!/?action=dlattach;attach=762561;image)
Here she is barely holding at 10.5A/1363W/150% overload - typically this breaker should trip within an hour or so at that loading. It starts to buzz after ~10 seconds and will trip if you just touch it.
It trips instantly at any of these loads if I short-circuit the output, so I'm gonna say she's fit as a fiddle & ready for love.
![Cool 8)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/cool.gif)
Cheers,
mnem
*Juicy*